BASEL/LONDON – The world’s 101 biggest banks would have needed an extra €208.2 billion ($272 billion), in aggregate, to meet the Basel III minimum capital requirements had the standards been in force at the middle of last year, according to the latest monitoring exercise undertaken by the Basel Committee, which crafted the new standards. However, the shortfall is €166 billion less than it was six months earlier.

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